innovation playground Idris Mooteetag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-13057642015-10-26T18:27:39-04:00Idris Mootee is a global leader in Strategic Innovation and Design Foresight, board advisor, published author and keynote speaker, and visiting professor of strategy. He is CEO of Idea Couture, a global strategic innovation firm and a strategic advisor for several global companies.
Most of the posts are often written in airport lounges or late in the evening, appreciate if you can excuse my typos and grammars. This is a personal blog and the content may not necessarily represent the views of the companies that I represent or advise.TypePadMost Companies’ Crisis Are Worse When Compounded by Industry Disruptive Forces with a Leadership Crisistag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01bb088739a2970d2015-10-26T18:27:39-04:002015-10-27T11:40:56-04:00Companies that are facing industry disruptions are bad enough; during these times leadership faces the most important test – the ability to lead during a crisis. The need of foresight, change and organization design are what true leadership looks like. Some sees this an opportunity to gain power and fulfill their thirst for greed and this needs to be stopped....IdrisLeadership Without Consensus Is Great Leadership. Great Leadership Means Deciding On What Is Best For the Company. And Sticking With It.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01bb086ea886970d2015-09-07T21:39:47-04:002015-09-07T21:43:15-04:00Many times when people walk out of a meeting and look happy it is because they have achieved consensus and can now move forward. I always question if this is a sign of a good outcome or not. While having everyone on the same page and sharing the same vision is without question a good thing. But arriving on a...IdrisRandom Thoughts On Maturing Companies and Start-Ups. When Do You Need A Reset?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01b7c7c60057970b2015-08-31T16:27:24-04:002015-08-31T16:37:56-04:00In an interesting conversation with clients this week and discussions were around the question: “should companies plan for the distant future (10 years and beyond) and what is needed to get out of a death spiral where a slow death is in the making?” There is a big difference between growing with age and growing old. With age, it sometimes...IdrisDisruption Is Less About Technology. It's About Customer Experience. Disruptive CX Strategy Needs To Get Emotional.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01b8d14a2424970c2015-08-16T20:18:25-04:002015-08-17T18:48:04-04:00Why do some companies make so much profit and command price premiums while some continually struggle to make minimum margin and gain market share despite spending good money on advertising, buying channel presence with some even having a better designed product? The secret is very simple. Though these different high performance companies operate in very different industries and face different...IdrisMillennials Are Disrupting Media Again. Media Companies Now Need To Play Catch-up.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01b7c7b95feb970b2015-08-03T18:40:22-04:002015-08-03T18:57:56-04:00Digital disruption to the media began early in the days of the Internet throwing every media company into a crisis mode. Now this is happening again - this time, even homepage viewership is on the decline. I am not saying this is the death of the webpage, having a webpage or content site is simply not enough. Content is now...IdrisEven If You See The End Is Coming. You Still Need A Strategy Out. It Is The Time To Think New Game.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01b7c7aca375970b2015-07-10T20:41:48-04:002015-07-13T00:14:09-04:00Almost all companies at some point face some serious crisis. Sometimes it is clear that the end is near or coming and no can see the light at the end of the tunnel, at least not until you see it. Sometimes you know there is a way out but not sure how.Facing with disruptive changes driven by innovative technologies or...IdrisEight Most Common Marketing Mistakes That You Should Avoid Making.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01b7c7788f66970b2015-04-13T19:06:51-04:002015-04-13T20:24:27-04:00Every one is an expert in marketing these days. And with social media, everyone is an ad critic. Not entirely a bad thing, but as marketers you need know how to filter the noise. People need to understand the difference between STRATEGIC MARKETING, MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS and CHANNEL MARKETING. These are three very different things. The first one is strategic and...IdrisFive Deadly Mistakes of Organization Transformation That Leaders Must Avoid.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01b8d0f5f5af970c2015-03-27T00:59:42-04:002015-03-27T19:57:27-04:00So you are ready to transform your organization? You want your organization to leapfrog the industry? You want to deliver above industry average growth? And do you know what are the most common mistakes that leaders and even very smart and experienced leaders make? The most common one is sticking with the usual way, the easy way and the proven...IdrisDesign Leadership Is More Than Simplicity. It Is About Design Discipline.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01bb07f50add970d2015-02-21T08:38:55-05:002015-02-22T09:42:15-05:00El·e·gant, an adjective and define or characterized by or exhibiting refined, tasteful beauty of manner, form, or style. Marc Jacob? Chanel? Jil Sander? Hermes? All are unquestionably elegant by design in the fashion world. How about smartphones or interfaces? Can they be elegant? Or what about customer experiences? Can you describe a banking or customer service experience as elegant? Most...IdrisThe Most Successful Wearable Design Is All About Balance, Benefit, Beauty And Behavior.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01bb07edf185970d2015-02-10T20:12:37-05:002015-02-10T20:14:59-05:00This is the billion-dollar question: “How do we create the iPhone pr Walkman of wearables?” and “How do we create sub-ecosystems around these wearables?” At the CES who this year, you can still see everyone displaying their newest or not-so-new wearable ideas. No one can afford to miss the train but most of the wearables out there now are just...IdrisThe Come Back Of Hardware. Is Software Becoming A Commodity?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01b7c70740e9970b2014-11-15T19:54:49-05:002014-11-16T14:39:10-05:00The world is suddenly obsessed with smart technologies and this time around it seems unstoppable. Our everyday electrical and mechanical industrial object will now be occupied and ran by software and connected to the cloud. It also means each object (as small as some smoke detectors and as large as automobiles) will now be equipped with tons of sensors and...IdrisLet's Not Confuse Drawing Circles And Arrows With Real Sensemaking.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01b7c6d723da970b2014-09-01T13:52:14-04:002014-09-01T13:52:14-04:00As everything is moving faster and less predictable as it seems while organizations struggling to understand what it means and what options to take and how to land on the right decisions at the right time.The results often are inactions or delayed repsonses that cost companies. Both senior and middle managers’ job include understanding, interpreting and communicating options for executive...IdrisDoes Social Media Makes All Of Us Phenomenologists? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01a3fd3214cb970b2014-07-14T22:01:21-04:002014-07-14T22:08:35-04:00It is every designer’s dream to design a chair. I have yet to meet an industrial designer that doesn’t want to design a chair or a car. It is designer’s dream for those who study transportation design is to design a car and I get it. Chairs and tables? The reality is how often designers get a chance to design...IdrisWhat Are The Unmet Needs Of The Future Of Workplace?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01a511c004fd970c2014-05-25T22:46:36-04:002014-05-26T02:31:05-04:00We can see it’s coming. The future of work in the next five years will be so different from the last 50 years. There are more than a few driving forces behind this: demographic shift, lifestyles of millennial, technology, organization design, nature of competition, and human capital flow etc. Management of the workplace used to be quite simple. All one...IdrisStrategy Lessons From The Safari. There Is More Than Just The Survival Of The Fittest.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8351b44f853ef01a73d980c11970d2014-03-23T22:30:06-04:002014-03-23T22:50:05-04:00I recently took my strategy and innovation class out of the classroom. Guess where we ended up? A safari or a zoo (whatever you want to call it). What’s a better place that teaching strategy where you can see the survival of the fittest. It was a suggestion from my students. History is filled with examples of animal species with...Idris